https://www.reuters.com/article/world/ukraine-passes-language-law-irritating-president-elect-and-russia-idUSKCN1S110Y/

Literally the whole media switched spelling around this time.

iRaq and iRan are silly but the “Kyiv” stuff is different.

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White Russia

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Tbf that’s a literal translation of Belarus. It means ‘white Russia’.

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We call it that in Norwegian as well

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